My ticket to the seventh game of the 1967 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals cost $8.00. That was in the grandstand. The price of the same seat, for the 2013 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and St. Louis Cardinals (at Fenway Park in Boston), is $300.00. The inflation of words is bound to the inflation of prices. The grandstand is now called the “right field boxes.” It looks as though box seats, which were front-and-center, not extending far beyond the home and visiting team dugouts, now run to the right-field, bull pen.
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June 5, 2011 weekend update
Most of the major world markets in this series lost ground over the past week, with the S&P 500 suffering the largest decline. The Shanghai Composite managed to eke out a fractional gain, which was a welcome change fr…
May 29, 2011 weekend update
All of the major world markets in this series lost ground over the past week. The DAX has been a consistently poor performer in the three-week comps shown below. But the worst performance by far was the Shanghai Compo…
May 22, 2011
With the exception of the FTSE 100, with its modest 0.38% gain for week, all of the major world markets in this series lost ground. The DAX was finished in last place, down 1.84%, with the BSE SENSEX second-to-last with a 1.11% loss. Th…
